Ok so last night I tried to play overwatch but was experience rubber banding lag. It had never happened before. I wanted to rule out my router (linksys ea3500) first, so I immediately pinged 192.168.1.1 -t and watched it for a few mins. Every 15 secs or so, I would get a spike (http://imgur.com/a/u7mRa)
I reset modem, router and computer and checked it again. It was no longer happening. I then started up overwatch (also tried wow) and the spikes started again.
Here is the weird part. When I start my computer, and not open anything, it pings fine. Its only after overwatch or wow is running does it start. And then it continues even after I close the game.
I have tried replicating what is happening on my laptop but it does not happen. Which makes me think my wireless card on my desktop is going bad, but if it only happens after connecting to overwatch, can this be the case?
I have not tried forwarding the ports to the games. And will try that when I get home. But the game has never done this before so I am not sure what the issue is.
I reset modem, router and computer and checked it again. It was no longer happening. I then started up overwatch (also tried wow) and the spikes started again.
Here is the weird part. When I start my computer, and not open anything, it pings fine. Its only after overwatch or wow is running does it start. And then it continues even after I close the game.
I have tried replicating what is happening on my laptop but it does not happen. Which makes me think my wireless card on my desktop is going bad, but if it only happens after connecting to overwatch, can this be the case?
I have not tried forwarding the ports to the games. And will try that when I get home. But the game has never done this before so I am not sure what the issue is.
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